| Benjamin Greenleaf - 1850 - 368 páginas
...top terminated in a point or vertex. 8. A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The sphere may be conceived to be formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter,... | |
| Elias Loomis - 1851 - 300 páginas
...become x=r cos. «, y=r sin. v. SECTION IT. ON THE CIRCLE. (32.) A CIRCLE is a plane figure bounded by a line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. This bounding line is called the circumference of the circle. A radius of a circle is a straight line... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - 1852 - 320 páginas
...NONAGOJ* ; that of t«i, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &-i•.. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, culled the center. The curved line is called the circumference The DIAMETER of a circle is a line passing... | |
| Ezra S. Winslow - 1853 - 264 páginas
...parameter. A Sphere, or globe, is a perfectly round substance — a solid contained under a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. Its axis, or diameter, is any right line passing from a side through the centre to the... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - 1855 - 592 páginas
...the additional fact, that two straight lines cannot include a space. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 1 The curve is called the circumference, or in common language, the circle. So that in... | |
| Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - 1855 - 628 páginas
...Descriptive Geometry, Shade» and Shadows, Perspective, Spherical Projections, and Isometrical Projcca curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curve is called the circumference, or in common language, the circle. So that in speaking... | |
| John Brocklesby - 1855 - 394 páginas
...centre, (Latin) out of the centre. 19. A SPHERE. 'A sphere is a solid, bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre; every line passing through this centre, and limited by the surface, is a diameter. The... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - 1856 - 312 páginas
...NONAOON ; that of ten, a DECAGON ; that of twelve, a DODECAGON, &c. A CIRCLE is a plane, terminated by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The curved line is called the circumference. The DIAMETER of a circle is a line passing... | |
| Charles Davies - 1856 - 450 páginas
...chains, and the perpendicular distance between them 52 chains ? 337. A circle is a portion of a plane bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point within, called the centre. The curved line AEBD is called the circumference ; the point... | |
| Thomas Solly - 1856 - 320 páginas
...conceptions in the above instance united in the conception of the cause; the flight through the air in a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a certain imaginary fixed point and an imaginary straight line, are the representations united in the... | |
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